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Cards Term alliteration Definition repetition of the same or very similar consonant sound ussually at the begining of words that are close togetherin a poem Term allusion Definition reference to a statement, a person, a place, or a event from litterature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or pop culture Term assonance Definition repetition of similar vowel sounds that are followed by different consonant sounds, especially in words that are close together in a poem Term ballad Definition song that tells a story Term blank verse Definition poetry written in unryhmed iambic pentameter Term couplet Definition two consecutive lines of poetry that have a complete thought Term diction Definition a writers or speakers choice of words Term epic Definition a really long poem that tellsw a story Term epithet Definition adjective or descriptive phrase that is regulary used to characterized a person, place, or thing Term free verse Definition poetry that doese not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme Term haiku Definition japanese verse form considering of three lines and, ussually, seventeen syllables five in first line seven in secound and five in last Term imagery Definition language that apeals to the senses Term inversion Definition reversal of the normal word order of a sentence Term lyric poetry Definition poetry that does not tell a story but is aimed only at expressing a speakers emotions or thoughts Term metaphor Definition figure of speech that makes a comparison betweenj two unlike things in which one thing becomes another thing without the use of words: like, as, than,or resembles Term implied metaphor Definition does not tell us directly that one thin is something else insted it uses words that suggest the nature of the comparrison Term extended metaphor Definition a metaphor that is extended, or developed, over several lines Term dead metaphor Definition a metaphor that has been used so often that we don't even realize its a metaphor Term mixed metaphor Definition the inconsistant mixture of two or more metaphors Term meter Definition generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry Term iamb Definition an unstessed syllable followed by a stessed syllable (da DAH) Term trochee Definition stressed unstressed (DAH da) Term anapest Definition unstessed unstressed stressed (da da DAH) Term dactyl Definition stressed unstessed unstessed (DAH da da) Term Spondee Definition stressed stressed (DAH DAH) Term onomatopoeia Definition use of a word whose sound imatates or suggest its meaning Term parallelism Definition repetition of words, phrases, or sentences that have the same grammatical structure or that state a similaridea Term personification Definition kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked abut as if it were human Term pun Definition a play on words Term refrain Definition repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines Term rhyme Definition repetition of accented vowel sounds, and all sounds following them, in words that are close together in the poem Term end rhyme Definition occurs at the end of lines Term internal rhyme Definition occur in the middle of a line Term near rhyme Definition occurs at the begining of the line Term rhythm Definition musical quality in language produced by repetition Term simile Definition figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things using a word such as like, as, resembles, or than